PLUS (PT)

Independent Lens"Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines"
This program traces the evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, this film looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation.G

10:00 pm

Lost Nuke
In February of 1950 the world's largest bomber took off on a secret Cold War mission from Alaska. Inside the belly of the B-36 was a nuclear bomb and its 13-pound plutonium core.G

11:00 pm

The Central Park Five
In April 1989, a 28-year-old white investment banker went jogging through Central Park in New York City. When she was found hours later, she had been brutally raped, beaten and left for dead. This film examines the notorious crime, the media response and the public outcry it triggered, and the miscarriage of justice that followed it, probing the larger issues it raises about our nation's complicated past.G